Next generation (2025, 2026+) BEVs will be the tipping point for the auto industry.
When BEVs have 500 mile+ per charge capacity, charging infrastructure becomes abundant, and 350kW+ charging is ubiquitous (<15 min recharges), there will no longer be any value proposition for ICEs whatsoever (outside of hobbyists).
Amazing how fast the change is happening.
Agree or disagree?
My tipping point was … over 11 years ago now. I legit thought people were more aware of the industrial-scale horror that was enabled with every gas pump fill-up. Haven’t pumped gas in 11 years now… and it’s absolutely shocking that people still feel normal buying gas. Like, can we please stop funding dictators and corrupt companies? Any day now, people ought to snap out of it… any day now…
I sure hope it’s soon. It’s been generation after generation of increasingly-better EV offerings, yet we still continue to have the same, tired, “nuh-uhh!” discussions in any mainstream thread involving EVs. Next year, 300-mile range now 500-mile range (what next, 700?). Solid state batteries, charging in 5 minutes, next people won’t go electric until it’s truly self-driving. Or will they? Who knows. Find out next year when the goalposts move again!
It’s like addict behavior… people know gas is bad, but are just too afraid to let it go. Dunno why I’m so weird, I flung away from gas as soon as I had a chance.
It’s not about people being irrationally obsessed with gas. It’s about cost, and ICEs still having an advantage over BEVs, such as continuous driving at high speeds (over 100 mph) and faster recharges.
When the product is better, nobody will be buying ICEs anymore. We’re not there yet, but very very close.